The Resilience Turn in German Development Strategy and Humanitarian Intervention

Abstract: Resilience has emerged as a key theme in recent policy making. It spans a range of policy fields from infrastructure protection through to humanitarian intervention. This Research Paper looks at resilience as a theme of development strategy and humanitarian intervention and examines how it has emerged in German policy making. It argues that the dominant approach to resilience is a form of neoliberal governmentality that seeks to govern populations from a distance, devolve responsibility to people and communities, promote market mechanisms, encourage entrepreneurial behaviour and promote adaptation innovation and transformation among traditional communities. However, it is also recognised that this is a strongly Anglo-Saxon approach, targeted at specific individuals and communities. The purpose of the paper is to consider the extent to which German policy making is simply a reflection of this dominant Anglo-Saxon approach, or whether there is a more distinctive German view of resili

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource, 21 S.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Global Cooperation Research Papers ; Bd. 20

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Politik

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Duisburg
• (wer): Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research
• (wann): 2017
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wer): SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
• (wann): 2017
• Urheber: Joseph, Jonathan
• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: Käte Hamburger Kolleg. Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-20
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-66684-1
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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